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Old 02-03-2012, 09:33 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Keeping water butt water safe for drinking?

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AL_n wrote:

You can. But you need more of them than most people want to allocate
the space for.


Why?


Because they aren't continuous, so that water can get through between
the particles. Effectively, that means that they reduce the bacteria
(exponentially with thickness).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
 
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